TechCrunch – While America’s political and business elite are pressing Congress to ease high-skilled immigration laws, a new study argues that foreign workers aren’t necessarily better or brighter. “The immigrant workers, especially those who first came to the United States as foreign students, are in general of no higher talent than the Americans, as measured […]
Piecemeal Immigration Reforms Can Work
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive — Proponents of comprehensive immigration reform keep telling the rest of us that the whole immigration system is so “broken” that a piecemeal approach won’t do much to fix it. That’s pretty lame reasoning! Let’s take a simple example of the dramatic effect a piecemeal approach would have on the problem […]
Release of Illegal Alien Detainees Pits ICE Against American Communities
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive — The release of illegal alien detainees by ICE earlier this week, ostensibly done as a budget cutting measure in advance of sequestration, backfired on the Obama administration. Instead of putting pressure on Republicans to accept tax increases during budget negotiations, the move powerfully demonstrated to a wary public that the […]
Boosting Our Economy With a “Free Lunch” Program for Foreign Entrepreneurs
February 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Jim Gilchrist, MMP Exclusive – According to Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa, the latest version of the Start-up Visa program under consideration in Washington amounts to a “free lunch” for the Nation. So why not do it? [See column at http://tinyurl.com/aogttzt] Under this program, up to 75,000 foreign students and skilled workers will get to […]
